Unlikely to be related, but there are pictures of the Taliban flying a Blackhawk helicopter with a presumably dead body hanging from it.
Is it wrong to say ‘but one can hope’
You mean the one that appears to be of someone wearing a harness?
Can’t we just let him go but give him no support and maybe an incorrect map?
I saw a pretty indistinct picture from a low quality source so I didn’t link it, but yeah that must be the same one.
It’s not a dead body. It’s a Taliban dude trying to hang a flag off the chopper.
If that’s true, he might well be dead now. Grabbing hold of a flag pole while hanging from a helicopter invites a gigantic electrostatic discharge. Maybe he knew how to do it safely but if he was using a helicopter to put up a flag, I’m gonna guess no.
And how is it not obstruction of justice? Because Merrick is too much of a wuss to file charges?
The Democrats aren’t going to do a fucking thing and we are going to hand them the House next year and some even on this forum laughed at the WAAF crowd. I wish I’d made a more concerted effort to get out of this country a few years ago. Now my only comfort is that I have a pistol I inherited from my dead mom and some hollow point rounds.
WAAF
I’m still laughing at the WAAF crowd.
eh? I mean I’m not a waafer at all but isn’t the writing on the wall? Nothing done for the next 13 months and then the GQP takes the house and maybe the senate (which doesn’t matter without the house) and then uncle joe gets impeached… at least 3 times? 20 times? Right? The messaging from McCarthy et al is very, very clear that if they had the house they’d be impeaching Joe right now. And CNN and MSNBC will be breathlessly “reporting on it”.
And thats not to even bring up the fact that if the dems win the executive in 2024, somehow, the house won’t certify it! And then we’re, you know, China. It was a good run bois.
What do you mean nothing got done? Covid bill, infrastructure bill, Afghanistan withdrawal, all of which are allegedly popular. That’s about as much as Obama accomplished in 8 years.
The rest of the post is just Social Media Brain™.
Reread, didn’t say got done, though should have said “nothing will get done from here on out” I guess. and cool dunk bro™
wanna take a $100 “joe biden will be impeached before the end of 2024” bet winner goes to charity of choice, I take yes? reply booked if so. TBH would love to lose this one but I don’t see it happening. Republicans will win the house in 2022 and they’ll impeach Joe for… whatever they feel like.
Booked. Snap booked. Probably a freeroll for you because I’ll forget booked.
Anyone who doesn’t recognize that WAAF is delusional. We were fucked the minute it became clear democrats weren’t going to pass voting rights. Every swing state republicans control is going to be impossible to win with voter suppression and insane rules that they can control local dem counties voting rules. Once Republicans win the governorship in PA/Wi/MI it’ll basically be impossible for us to win the executive. Those swing states were INSANELY close, and now Republicans are going disenfranchise millions of people in them. What they’ve already passed is just the start, they will pass a lot more once congress is safely in Republican hands.
Dems will win the house here and there, or the senate, and the presidency, but they won’t have a trifecta for a very, very long time.
I mean we aren’t fucked if you’re fine with how everything is now of course, so it’s all a matter of perspective. If you’re cool with no progress for 1-2 decades and the supreme court legislating from the bench doesn’t worry you, yeah you’re good. For people who want progress though WAAF, it’s dead.
Republican politicians have a free ticket to stay in power for the rest of their lives because their supporters want them to cheat. You don’t think Republicans are going to take that free ticket? With the protection of the supreme court?
Whats going to stop them? Maybe a massive economic collapse under Republican leadership, but I think the propaganda has the hooks in enough at this point they could ride it out blaming dems and trans people.
This is probably close, but it’s not like that’s some big win for Dems. America is stuck in a dynamic now of total denial about their eroding empire, so all these (white) Americans expect to have perpetually increasing standards of living in The Best Country In The World but what’s actually going to happen is perpetual disappointment and confusion about why their hopes and dreams are not realized. My guess is that this doesn’t manifest as a “massive economic collapse”, it’s probably more like a drawn out economic collapse combined with constant chaotic turmoil on the political front as people desperately whip saw around looking for people to blame. When you truly believe that America’s God-given destiny is increasing standards of living for white people, then the only explanation for that not happening is some evil people stealing it from your or stupid people fucking it up. This is ultimately why poor deplorables rally around Republican rage narratives and vote against their self interest - it’s easier for them to tap into their instinctive hatred for non-whites and eggheads to explain their failures. So America’s decline actually helps Republicans politically, notwithstanding all their Red White And Blue propaganda.
The absolute nail in the coffin was the demographics of the 2020 election. Prior to that we all had the hope that once boomers started dying off and demographics changed we would have a massive advantage, but Republicans made massive gains with people 18-55, blacks and latinos. IIRC Biden actually won the 65+ crowd. Facebook rotted everyones brains, and Republicans were experts at digital advertising while the dems simply used it to ask for more money for TV ads.
So there is nothing left to save us, it’s just a slow descent into hell.
It’s going to be slow, then sudden. Once they win once, that’s curtains.